Salamander

Series Similar to Salamander

If you enjoyed Salamander, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Penoza

   2010 · Drama, Crime · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Crime profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Housewife Carmen van Walraven is forced to take over her family's criminal business when her husband is assassinated for trying to snitch.

2. D.P.

   2021 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   A young private's assignment to capture army deserters reveals the painful reality endured by each enlistee during his compulsory call of duty.

3. MINDHUNTER

   2017 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8.4).

   MINDHUNTER is based on the 1996 book Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit, by former special agent John Douglas and Mark Olshaker. For years, Douglas pursued some of the most notorious serial killers and rapists, developing profiling techniques to catch them. The book goes behind the scenes of some of his highest-profile cases, including the man who hunted prostitutes in Alaska, the Atlanta child murderer, and Seattle's Green River killer. To hone in his profiling methods Douglas interviewed and studied a skew of serial killers. Several book and TV characters have been based in part on him, including Jack Crawford in Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs, Will Graham on Hannibal and Jason Gideon on Criminal Minds.

4. Undercover

   2019 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, also on VRT 1.

   One of the largest ecstasy producers in the world, Ferry Bouman, lives a charmed life in his villa on the Dutch-Belgian border. But things start to change when two undercover agents move into his territory, attempt to infiltrate Bouman's life and shut down his network.

5. Hidden

   2011 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, hidden gem.

   When the mysterious lawyer Gina Hawkes turns up asking Harry to find a missing alibi witness for her client he agrees to take on the job but is unwittingly drawn into investigating the death of his brother 20 years ago. Harry quickly finds himself caught up in a much bigger and more complex conspiracy that reaches deep into the heart of the British political system.

6. Mammon

   2014 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, hidden gem.

   Mammon is a thriller series in the spirit of "All the Presidents men". However, in this story not all journalists are good, and the hunt for truth far more personal. Peter Verås is an uncompromising journalist in the most respected newspaper in Norway. He makes his life's biggest mistake when he gets hold of evidence of a financial fraud from an anonymous source. It turns out the evidence points to his own brother. As he still pursues and the story breaks, the brother commits suicide. Peter tries to track down the anonymous source, only to discover that the source was the brother himself. A search for the truth has commenced that involves media, high – ranked politicians as well as the financial elite. The closer he gets to the truth, the more dangerous it becomes for him and his brother's family.

7. The Widower

   2014 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended92% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, hidden gem.

   The Widower is a three-part drama from ITV Studios based on the crimes of convicted murderer, Malcolm Webster, played by Reece Shearsmith (Psychoville, The League of Gentlemen, A Field in England).The Widower tells how, over a 13 year period Malcolm Webster set about poisoning and murdering his first wife, attempting to do the same to his second wife and moving on to a further scheme to deceive his third fiancée.

8. The Missing

   2014 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended91% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (8).

   Thriller series exploring the emotional fallout of a child's abduction not only on the family but on the wider community.

9. The Fixer

   2015 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended91% match

   Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, hidden gem.

   Ellie Molaro is an investigator with the NTSB - the US federal body which determines the causes of major accidents. She becomes suspicious of the "official answers" to an oil rig disaster, spearheads a private investigation with a secret tipster named Carter.Carter claims that a conspiracy of "Fixers" are behind some of the worst global disasters, all rigged to manipulate the stock market, and reap billions for a select few.Now, their largest operation in decades is an impending, catastrophic event targeting Washington, D.C. and the only way they can succeed is if Ellie and Carter are among the casualties.

10. Breaking Bad

    2008 · Drama, Crime, Thriller · ended91% match

    Recommended for similar Crime / Thriller profile, highly rated (9.2).

    Breaking Bad follows protagonist Walter White, a chemistry teacher who lives in New Mexico with his wife and teenage son who has cerebral palsy. White is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of two years left to live. With a new sense of fearlessness based on his medical prognosis, and a desire to secure his family's financial security, White chooses to enter a dangerous world of drugs and crime and ascends to power in this world. The series explores how a fatal diagnosis such as White's releases a typical man from the daily concerns and constraints of normal society and follows his transformation from mild family man to a kingpin of the drug trade.